Brainstem cavernoma

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A brainstem cavernoma is a cavernous malformation localized in the brainstem.

Risk of hemorrhage

Cavernomas at this location have an annual hemorrhage risk of 4 to 5 % per lesion each year1.

Imaging

The imaging gold standard for diagnosing brainstem cavernomas is MRI.

MRI of a cavernoma in the dorsolateral medulla oblongata
MRI of a brainstem cavernoma in the left dorsolateral medulla oblongata on a sagittal MRI image.

Brainstem cavernoma, axial T2-weighted MRI
Axial T2-weighted MRI sequence of a patient with a cavernoma in the left dorsolateral medulla oblongata.

References

    1. Book: Neurosurgical Knowledge Update, a comprehensie Review. Robert Harbaugh et al. Thieme Verlag ↩ ↩

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